14th March 2006, 07:59 PM
If units experiencing recruitment crises did raise their wages, they would be breaking the gentleman?s agreement that says they should abide by the IFAs recommended minimums.
The variation in existing salaries rather counts against your ?gentlemen?s agreement hypothesis? that field units are conspiring to keep wages low, even if it means compromising their ability to carry out work by keeping vacancies open. If there was real difficulty in finding staff willing to take up a position, pay rates would increase rapidly.
I don?t think that a campaign for the compulsory rise by 13% of costs for the 52 RAOs (out of c. 152 organisations carrying out field interventions) in April 2007 would have any effect but for there to be 52 less RAOs if implemented .- and to repeat LG and University based organisations would not be allowed to change pay and grades without lots of negotiation.
In April 2007 the RAOs will be implementing reforms to standardise their benefits packages after a couple of years consultation and warning ? and I?m sure a few are worried about the consequences for their competitiveness over that ?
As is probably clear from my posts (!) I think that an approach with a clear target (for 2010) with incremental changes above inflation starting in 2008, allowing the management of these new costs, and reducing the risk of RAOs being undercut by lower paying non-RAOs has a much greater chance of success...
The variation in existing salaries rather counts against your ?gentlemen?s agreement hypothesis? that field units are conspiring to keep wages low, even if it means compromising their ability to carry out work by keeping vacancies open. If there was real difficulty in finding staff willing to take up a position, pay rates would increase rapidly.
I don?t think that a campaign for the compulsory rise by 13% of costs for the 52 RAOs (out of c. 152 organisations carrying out field interventions) in April 2007 would have any effect but for there to be 52 less RAOs if implemented .- and to repeat LG and University based organisations would not be allowed to change pay and grades without lots of negotiation.
In April 2007 the RAOs will be implementing reforms to standardise their benefits packages after a couple of years consultation and warning ? and I?m sure a few are worried about the consequences for their competitiveness over that ?
As is probably clear from my posts (!) I think that an approach with a clear target (for 2010) with incremental changes above inflation starting in 2008, allowing the management of these new costs, and reducing the risk of RAOs being undercut by lower paying non-RAOs has a much greater chance of success...